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Natalie’s devastated mother Marina Tranter said: “Natalie’s left six children and one only nine months old - who is never ever going to know her mom.

"I hate them for what they’ve done. They’ve destroyed me and my family."

An inquest at Black Country Coroner’s Court in July heard how Natalie was "climbing the walls in pain" while she was waiting to be treated in A&E at the hospital.

Marina Tranter in an interview with BBC news

Ms Tranter said: "She was on and off the trolley, it was horrific.

"They had given her morphine. I went and asked if she could have anymore and they said they couldn’t give her anymore yet.

"Her leg was still different colours, like a mottled effect, gone up to her calf and shin.”

The Care Quality Commission inspected Russells Hall in June and then began an investigation into a total of 54 deaths at the hospital.

Heidi Smoult, deputy chief inspector of hospitals in the Central region, said: “We have had ongoing concerns about the emergency department at Russells Hall Hospital and were extremely concerned at what we found during our inspection."

Natalie Billingham in hospital before she died

The commission found Sepsis patients' records had been misreported. Some were left in the waiting room for over an hour without being seen and one was left “oozing blood”.

A full report will be published later this month.

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Birmingham Coroner's Court

Russell Hall Chief executive Diane Wake said: “We have increased significantly the number of nursing staff. We have recently appointed two new consultants to the department and one of those consultants have taken on the clinical lead role.

"We are confident that working with him, we will take the department forward and improve the safety of the emergency department here."

Dudley Group NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said it had the region’s lowest mortality rate and had appointed a new clinical lead for urgent and emergency care.